HEARTLESS thieves snatched the piggy bank of a 13-year-old severely disabled girl, leaving her family feeling 'disgusted and vulnerable.'

The thieves targeted the home in Cheltenham Street, Sudden, on Saturday night after Christine Evans and her daughter Jenna left the house.

Christine's elder daughter Gayle Evans, aged 26, said: "I am absolutely disgusted. They must have waited until my mother and sister left. They could have been watching the house. To then steal a child's piggy bank, not just any child but from a very ill little girl, is all a bit sick."

Jenna requires round-the-clock care from her mother and relies on an oxygen tank to help her breathe. She is wheelchair-bound, which would have been obvious to intruders because of access provisions around the house.

Gayle said: "My mother is a single parent giving constant care and my sister is wheelchair-bound. The thieves clearly have no conscience, targeting a family in that predicament.

"I want to shame the people that did this. If anyone saw anything dodgy on Saturday evening we would urge you to contact the police."

Jenna's mother, Christine, said: "They were after money, but a child's piggy bank is the last thing they should have taken."

If anyone has any information about the burglary, call the police on 0161 856 8551.